User blog comment:Dr. Eggman rox 2/Devil May Cry Timeline/@comment-5462113-20140629005428/@comment-6769189-20140630182011

Nope DMC2 is canon. So is all of DMC1. yes DMC2 does suck and Capcom wants to avoid the shit out of it which is why they wont make a game set after it. They dont want to make it non-canon but they dont want to work with it either.